Facts and Statistics
Medical Center and Health System Facts
Figures are for fiscal year 2011 unless otherwise indicated.
The 2011-12 U.S.News & World Report rankings placed Duke University Medical Center among the top 10 of 140 qualifying medical centers, and only one of 17 to make the "Honor Roll."
For the 11th year running, Triangle residents rated Duke University Medical Center the best-quality hospital in the Durham area -- earning Duke a 2011-12 Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation.
Annual operating revenues, Duke Medicine: $3.6 billion
Medical Center campus size: 96 buildings located on 210 acres
Gross square feet: 5.8 million
Faculty and Staff Facts
Duke is the largest employer in Durham County and the second-largest private employer in North Carolina. Duke University Health System has approximately 15,700 full-time employees, while the academic Duke University Medical Center has 7,658 full-time employees.
Included among the employees at Duke University Medical Center are:
- 1,243 faculty in the clinical program
- 198 faculty in the basic sciences
- 69 faculty in the nursing school
Education Facts
All figures are current as of October 2011 unless otherwise noted.
For the class entering September 2011, the School of Medicine received nearly 5,000 applications for 100 slots.
In 2011, U.S.News & World Report ranked Duke's schools and programs as among the best in the United States:
- Duke University School of Medicine: 5th
- Duke University School of Nursing: 7th
- Duke Physician Assistant Program: 1st
- Duke Doctor of Physical Therapy Program: 13th (2008, most recent data available)
Student Facts
School of Medicine MD Program: 413
PhD Programs in Basic Sciences: 577
School of Nursing: 760
- Accelerated BSN: 213
- MSN degree: 376
- Post-Master's certificate: 26
- Health Informatics certificate: 7
- DNP degree: 119
- PhD degree: 19
Medical and Health Professions:
- Doctor of Physical Therapy: 200
- Physician Assistant (MHS degree): 160
- Pathologists' Assistant (MHS degree): 16
- Clinical Leadership Program (MHS degree): 9
- Clinical Research Program (MHS degree): 147
- Ophthalmic Medical Technician Program: 8
Continuing Medical Education: In fiscal year 2010, the School of Medicine's Office of Continuing Medical Education sponsored 589 activities attended by approximately 49,000 physicians and 21,000 non-physicians.
Research Facts
All figures are current as of October 2011 unless otherwise noted.
Duke University Medical Center comprises one of the largest biomedical research enterprises in the country, with approximately $682 million in sponsored research.
Duke is ranked 11th among American medical schools in National Institutes of Health grant funding (excluding R&D contracts and ARRA awards), with more than $288 million in 2011. (Source: brimr.org)
With highly respected research programs in areas ranging from cancer and heart disease to the basic sciences and health policy research, Duke is home to the nation's largest and oldest academic clinical research organization -- the Duke Clinical Research Institute -- and to the $200-million Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy, a campus-wide initiative to address the broad challenges of the genomic revolution.
About 14 percent of Duke students are enrolled in the Medical Scientist Training Program, which leads to both a MD and a PhD in one of the basic sciences. Created to train highly qualified students as physician-scientists, the program has graduated more MD-PhDs than any such program in the country and is highly regarded nationally.
Patient Care Facts
Figures are for Duke University Health System (including Duke University Hospital, Duke University Medical Center, Durham Regional Hospital, Duke Raleigh Hospital, Duke HomeCare & Hospice, Duke Primary Care) for fiscal year 2011 unless otherwise indicated.
Inpatient admissions: 61,546
Outpatient visits: 1,927,635
Number of surgical procedures, including endoscopy: 87,705
Figures are for Duke University Hospital, hospital-based clinics, and DUMC outpatient locations for fiscal year 2011 unless otherwise indicated.
Inpatients: 40,533
Outpatient visits: 1,170,589
Average adult daily census (without observation): 682
Total inpatient days (including normal newborns): 254,587
Emergency Department visits: 69,643
Patients transported by LifeFlight (excludes ground): 821
Number of surgical cases: 36,364
Hospital lab procedures: 5,544,831
Babies delivered: 2,894
Cardiac catheterizations (adult/pediatric/mobile): 5,409
Cardiac catheterizations in mobile units: 111
Angioplasties: 955
Open-heart surgeries:
- Adult: 923
- Pediatric: 113
- Thoracic: 1,365
Organ transplants:
- Kidney: 113
- Pancreas-Kidney: 8
- Pancreas: 1
- Lung: 140
- Heart: 56
- Liver: 58
Charity Care and Community Care Facts
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